Kevin Johnson

Review of Veterans Administration Medica...

Quite simply, this place saved my life and continu...

Quite simply, this place saved my life and continues to do so to this day.
I have a rare form of Cancer called Plasmoblastic Lymphoma (NH - Stage 4) that literally had me lying on my deathbed.
For no other reason than it MIGHT work The VA doctors went ahead and began treating me with a Chemotherapy regime called EPOCH.
It was not unlike putting Oil into a car with a blown engine hoping it might start. (Oh, that's 10-20 thousand dollar a pint oil BTW)
I do believe, to this day that any other hospital would have made the the much more fiscally sound and justifiably prudent decision to give me palliative care and let me die with the week.
My cancer went into remission and stayed that way for 18 months, !8 of the best months of my life.
Yeah, it's come back, but we caught it early enough to knock it back down with the DHAP chemo regime and I'm eligible for a bone marrow transplant next year.
Thanks to the VA I have a fight chance for a quite a few more good years.